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An Israeli firm has unveiled a tiny medical camera that is less than a millimeter wide. More importantly, the camera is disposable--which could help lower the cost of surgeries and diagnostic procedures.

NEW YORK -- Japanese automaker Nissan will replace Ford as supplier of New York City's iconic yellow taxicabs as this city abandons its earlier goal of having an all-hybrid cab fleet, after being twice thwarted by federal courts. But the deal with Nissan will allow the city to launch a pilot test next year to determine whether having all cabs as electric vehicles at some point in the future is an option it could pursue instead. [More]

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Following the recent disaster in Japan, the Tokyo Hackerspace --an open community space where hackers get together to play with hardware (among other things)--channeled its hive mind not into its usual playing with lasers and forgetting to shower, but rather into helping the country recover from earthquake and nuclear-related woes. The Tokyo Hackerspace's most high-profile project is its NETRAD geiger shield, an open-source geiger counter shield that detects local radiation levels. Eventually, the hackerspace hopes to expand its sensor network to the Fukushima region

It would be a disaster economically, upsetting family budgets and making the transporting of goods potentially next to impossible. But according to a new survey by Deloitte, it could take something as extreme as $5-per-gallon of gas to persuade most U.S.

01 / Nissan For creating the Leaf, the first mass-market electric car. 02 / Nike > > For its mix of sports, style, and yes, plastic bottles

In this installment, "The Big Thirst" author and Fast Company writer explores how water, which technically can't be made radioactive, could be the least threatening byproduct of the hobbled Fukushima plant. FACT: Nothing is thirstier than nuclear power plants. They use water deep inside the reactor core, and they use rivers of water for cooling

One month to the day after the devastating twin blows of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent 15-meter tall tsunami, Japanese officials have reclassified the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant at the highest possible level. The partial meltdown of three reactors and at least two spent fuel pools, along with multiple hydrogen explosions at the site now rate a 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale--a level previously affixed only to the meltdown and explosion at Chernobyl

By Yoko Kubota and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO, April 11 (Reuters) - Japanese nuclear power plant [More]

Radiation from hampered Japanese plant found in California, Washington milk; Dr. Jennifer Ashton on why you shouldn't worry

In 2003, Laura Ching left a marketing job at Walmart.com to co-found Tiny Prints , a Sunnyvale, California, business that sells invitations, announcements, and other customized stationery online. The business is a perfect fit for Ching, a stickler for proper etiquette. Here are two of her favorite things.

1. Today in Europe Microsoft will file an antitrust complaint against Google with the authorities

University of Washington physicists are detecting radioactivity from Japanese nuclear reactors that have been in crisis since a mammoth March 11 earthquake, but the levels are far below what would pose a threat to human health.

If you type "Japanese barberry" into a search engine, the first result will likely be a National Park Service web page designed to look like a "Wanted" poster. "LEAST WANTED" is written across the top. It’s a fact sheet about the ecological threat posed by this invasive shrub.

Several academic institutions are teaming up in an effort organized by the U.S.